The Democratic Reunion: Wisconsin
Some Democrats kicked-off their Reunion events last week. Here is an update I received from a Wisconsin Democrat.
Another local Democratic organizer and I put together an event that brought out about 30 people, and included Democratic candidates and staff for almost every single local campaign, from County Sheriff to State Assembly to Attorney General to Secretary of State to U.S. Representative and U.S. Senate. We also had people from the group Fair Wisconsin.I conceived of organizing our Democratic Reunion event as a way to connect the local grassroots activists with the campaigns of this fall. It was a first step in the longer-term vision of building a local, activist, grassroots Democratic Party. It went off very well, and we built a lot of forward momentum. Some of the best ideas that came out of everyone meeting was a continuation of the event at 75, 50, and 25 days out from the election. And many of us found new avenues of activism with which to get engaged.
Our local DNC organizer, Bob (who has done a great job - especially in the western part of our state), showed up and we talked at length about his work, the 50-State Strategy, and how the fall is shaping up.
The event was great, and I'm thrilled that the DNC is looking to get more local organizing into their plans at becoming a vitalized, energetic and activist party of the people.
All in all, it was fantastic to connect with other local Democrats (many of us Democratic activists knew each other, but we got to expand our network of contacts and friends) and I look forward to seeing more of it in the future. Keep up the great work! Chairman Dean and the DNC staff are making me proud to be a Democrat.
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